Ending Moderate Drinking Tied To Depression

umm, i get really happy when i am drinking, but when i stop a notice a slight decrease in mood..what goes up must come down...wow, how surprising...
 
That study seems flawed. I'm not buying the $30 copy of the whole study to find out, but I'm not convinced that they established proper causal evidence to back this claim.

How long does one sustain moderate drinking before noticing the depression? What if a person has never imbibed alcohol in their life. What is a "moderate" amount of drinking defined as? And for a rat? 8)
 
I notice a big improvement in my mood the day after I drink moderately to heavily. I put it down to a mania inducing effect, thoughts?
 
nukka said:
That study seems flawed. I'm not buying the $30 copy of the whole study to find out, but I'm not convinced that they established proper causal evidence to back this claim.

How long does one sustain moderate drinking before noticing the depression? What if a person has never imbibed alcohol in their life. What is a "moderate" amount of drinking defined as? And for a rat? 8)
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The article doesn't say that sustaining moderate drinking was correlated with depression, it says that after drinking moderately for 28 days abstaining caused depressive symptoms in rats. The article is poorly written and parts of it seem to be confusing posters here (see my previous post and modular's, too).

Regarding what "moderate drinking" is, maybe it's just the same blood mL/kg level in rats that 2-4 drinks results in for the average human. The study is really only likely to be relevant to moderate drinkers who are planning on quitting totally or who tend to cycle periods of moderate drinking and abstinence.
 
"Our research in an animal model establishes a causal link between abstinence from alcohol drinking and depression,"


That sentence right there is slightly misleading IMO.
 
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